U.S. IS PROUD OF ITS SPIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000601240011-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2013
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 15, 1954
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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l:INA'S refusal to be bullied /0";- --'r.....
into surrender over t h e ? . , -
. American spies is backed by a? '.. ?./.,-? I ?
; mass of fact. The statement pub-' fr.' 'do
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lished in the Peking People's r
- Daily exposes the wide extent of
? , American spying and intrigue in
the Chinese People's Republic. _
During the past four years, it -
says, 200 spies have been wiped out American sivle
in China. And the statement---
refers also to Ameriean financ- Schwaytzkopft. I. may note. was
'ing of spies in the U.S.S.R. and z411-61d-tufi.associate of Zahedi's
Eastern Europe. and was known as " adviser " to
?
I may add that the present him and the Shah.
reign of terror' in Iran is a direct. Ten days after the -"holiday "
nutcome of American spying, in Party in the Swiss Alps, Zahedi
rtrigue and interference. delivered his 'armed coup against
Mossadcq's Government, The
Witness Iran
Saturday Evening ,Post deScribes
'
the operation :,, ? .
China is too powerful to be "By nightfall, following Amen-
driven
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driven by outside interferencet can-style military strategy and
along that road. The Government loyalist *troops drove
'in,isties.
of the People's Republic firmly! m-
ossadtiq's elements into a tight
I
. ,..
warns the Americans against the
cordon around the Premier's
consequences they will suffer if; palace."
i
they try it. i There is outside interfereace i
In Iran, however, the Americans! with a vengeance. .. I
hardly concealed their methods, China defends' herself with I
and now they boast of them. An, reason.
account published serially in
. Saturday Evening Post and en- liVoit-, merry widon.s
1
.
- titled " America's Secret Agents,".
Hells Of their part in restoring: JOLLY deco/1'; of Osbert Peake,
Minister of ' Pensions, to say:,
' General Zahedi, Hitler's wartime!
. collaborator, to power, , he was "not very happy" about..
widows' pensions.
The Central Intelligence Agency( His colleague, Marples, Parlia-!
: (C.I.A.), America's world - wide., mentary Secretary to the Ministry;',
spy network directed by Alan . supplieed the information that;
Dulles, brother of John Foster. 165,000 widows are on the lOs a!
Dulles, Secretary of State, was !
week rate. ..
In charge of the job. And that is worth about half of
: prewar value.,. Not much scope,?
for merry widOws.
? Here are 'some extracts' from
the Saturday Evening post story: ateeir.E.crrumze
triumph was the successful over-
throw (by General Zahedi). in
Iran in the summer of 1953, of old
dictatorial Premier Mohammed
IM,,ssadeq, .and the return to
power of this country's
(America's) friend, Shah Mo-
hammed Reza Pahlevi."
The writer explains that in
Iran last summer there was a
? " situation which required a little
doing." and continues:
. "The doing began in short order
' through a chain of stranger-than-
. fict ion circumstances involving
(Alan] a diplomat, a prin-
cess and a policeman. On August
]0 Dulles packed his bags and flew
. to Europe to join his wife for a
vacation in the Swiss Alps . . ?.
"Loy Henderson, U.S, Ambas-
sador to Iran, felt he could leave
his post for a short ' holiday ' in .
Switzerland. Princess Ashraf, the
attractive and strong-willed -
brunette twin sister of the Shah, :
' chose the same week to fly to a
Swiss Alpine resort . . .
"The fourth of the assorted'.
characters in this drama, Brig.- ;
Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf, at ?
this time took a flying vacation !
across the Middle East. Ins
itinerary included apparently aim-
less and leisurely . stops in
.-Pakistan, Syria . Lebanon?and.;
Iran,"
Swiss holiday
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